armagnac

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She is I believe

sshhhhhhhhhh ffs she's been pestering me for years, not a fu cking chance i dont believe in it just a worthless bit of paper. imo

i remember my old girlfriend proposing to me some years back on valantines day......she wasn't very happy when i said NO! infact it put a bit of a dampner on the day

i bet.

marriage is a swear word to me, and is more of an offensive word than tax

Are you in a long term relationship then?

yes, why ?

are you a marriage counsellor ? or something simular ?

psychologist ?

I'm just surprised that you're in a relationship with a woman.

13 years mate, why do think i spend every waking moment glued to this chair
mind you its lasted so long coz we have spent a lot of time apart, which is good for any relationship...apart from the last 4 months where ive been sat here 24/7 but she works so not seen her during the day...starting to get really bored mind you, gonna hit the road very soon.

Ah I see

put it this way mate, if i did ever spilt up with her...i would 110% stay single, never again... i dread to think how much she's had off me in that time...at one point i had to chuck out every catalogue and argos book i could find.

my advice to anyone in there early 20's is go and enjoy yourself for at least 10 years and dont even think about settling down until you hit your mid 30's.
then get yourself a nice bird while you still look pretty good and before your beer gut consumes you [;)]

she goes out to work every day and your sat in your Y fronts glued to your chair watching BB

And you think shes using you?

And then she comes home and cooks and cleans. Sounds like a good investment. You'd have only p1ssed the money away anyway [;)]

poor fishing A1

aye Henry tbf, she's quality around the house...unlimited coffee's, dinner to my desk, always clean clothes...why do you think im still here

she sounds like a right selfish cow

shes lucky to have you army

she's as good as gold mate, its the shouting and arguing between her and the kids that gets right on my nerves bigtime....i cant escape it coz the pc is set up in the front room.

im usually on the road 5 days out of the week so the 2 days im at home i appreciate and can cope with the shouting coz i know i'll be gone again the next day.
but 4 months is starting to take its toll, the road beckons

I've had similar situations but a lot of places have wifi now, libraries are best and free, but there are also places to go in the evening with internet.

cheers Henry, sometimes its so hard to study the footy or read an article, BB related obviously.. coz of the noise going on, end up reading the same sentence 10 times.

my heart bleeds

They not your kids?! And what do you mean by hitting the road?

are these dogging sites you go to in the evenings Henry

Army

Why don't you plug headphones into the PC and
play music.

My parents are still together after 50 years, mostly cos my mum stands at her end of a narrow kitchen with the radio on, which forms a kind of
sound wall against my dad's continuous drivel.
He's happy too cos he likes talking, so long as
there is someone capable of hearing (even if they
don't respond).

In my parents' day the expectation of marriage
was to find a way to tolerate someone for life
rather than seek happiness. I've no idea why
people get married these days. No-one I know that
took the vows ten years ago are still together today (let alone until death them do part), yet
a fair few non-married friends are still with
their partners of 10 years plus - mind you those couples don't have kids.

then there's the times there just chatting away and i snap and have a pop at them coz ive just done a two'er on the footy naughty army, not there fault...but i let it build up over the week, then just flip.
hardly suprising though coz at times its like world war 3 going on all around me and im just sat there quietly trying to read something and let them get on with it. i should say something at the time but i just let it build up until the line has been crossed, then lookout

are these dogging sites you go to in the evenings Henry

[:D] Atm my life is not that exciting squares.

Perhaps as their dad, or step dad, you should help look after them instead of being a lazy ****?

Angela Rebecchi

of course they are and hitting the road means going back to work, i travel the country doing the fruities...guaranteed ive been to your town at some point, ive virtually been to every town in the country

You sound like a selfish bastard (but then so am I), good work! How come you've not been working for the last 4 months?

VardonVoo.

good post mate, yeah ive tried that..i love me music too much and end up singing along and annoying them and im a shocker on the mike

because hes run out of 10p pieces

AR

been trying to work something out on here to no avail

Few systems to go pro on here? Probably for the best ya don't anyway, much more rewarding life away from Betfair.

im sure there's plenty of systems and fair play to anyone thats worked one out, ive given up again..been trying for 10 years

on/off for months at a time

In my parents' day the expectation of marriage
was to find a way to tolerate someone for life
rather than seek happiness.

Traditionally marriage formed the formal structure to procreate, ie the legal status and protection of children, and thus continue the tribe or race. Although it was to ultimately ensure happiness for all it was not directly concerned with the immediate happiness of the participants, it was assumed that they were happy together anyway as they had chosen each other or had been chosen by those who loved them.

Have you tried poker army?

It's a game that suits a cold, systematical approach.

fll

love the game bigtime mate, but sick of internet poker...waste of time, you have to see someones face to get the full value of playing.
i only have 1 dream at this point in my life and thats to travel and play live poker all over the place.
ive read a lot books, brunson, helmuth but the best book by a distance is dan harrington's.
maybe coz i play very simular,but improved my game 75% the minute i read it

oh right, I've not played live for years and because of my habit of smiling when I have a good hand, I didn't have much success.

Online it's fairly easy, especially on here, to grind out a profit, if you have a patient, disciplined and systematical approach.

I have a number of books, but have only skimmed them and not really learnt anything from them.

Better to just play and learn from your mistakes imo.

For a start , don't start by playing $5/10 NL as I did ;)

"my habit of smiling when I have a good hand"

It's not such a problem online :)

plenty of live games here if you want to get back into it

Are you allowed to wear a balaclava and sunglasses?

Saying raise in a croacky (spelt wrongly no doubt) voice when you have AA was enough to tell me live was ever a serious money making option for myself. Still good fun in the cheap tournies.

yes, your probably better off online with a smiley tell.
ive played on here for years, tourney's, stt's, cash tables, 8 tables at a time at one point.
but im totally fed up of online now..ive burnt myself out.
live is brill, could never get bored of it, great buzz.
go on sharkscope and put my tag in, im showing a profit..reckon i could give it a real go.

armagnac1 (CryptoLogic)

check the graph, got upto a 1000 dollars profit at one point...then just got bored sh!tless...used to play all day long...drains the fu ck out of you. god knows how people do it online for a living

n1.
I'm rubbish at stt's. Getting better at mtt's but cash is what I play to make money.
I don't play as much as I used because as you say, it can get very boring, but there are worse ways of making money.

oh without doubt, its a really good way of passing a few hours and having the chance of making a few bob.

Armagnac have you ever considered charging subscribers to have a live feed into your gambling world and life. I would pay if just to see you do a monkey on the football and mope around the house, hopefully not kicking any kids or animals.

I lack patience in cash which is my one big downfall. Mtt's, I'm quite happy to sit there for 5 hours solid as a rock and make Harrington look uber LAG, but cash I try to force it too much. Expensive lessons learned [smiley:crazy]

Oh and fll I'm the same- smile when I have a big hand

@ paddletoe, i may have to...the bank is running thin

SelkirkAgain

have you read harrington's books, the two book series..one red and the other blue.
i recommend them to every poker fan, amazing insight

I've got Vol 1 of Harrington on Hold 'em but not the second one. Some very good points which I've used over the years but not sure how much it holds up to todays online play.

His cash games books are supposed to be good but these days I'm a recreational mtt player online. Would play more live if I had the time but totally different beast to online.

pretty good books but the games moved on several clips since then.

think i'd smash harrington HU online.

aye, im only interested in mtt these days..live ones. too many fish online, calling stations that hit rivers.
fu ckers would never make thm calls live, coz they would'nt want to look total d!cks...thats the trouble online, people call coz they can hide

Actually, we have something in common Armagnac, i have played online poker for the past 5 years. I often play 12 hours straight multi tabling up to 14 tables and after a while it can be very draining. You need to take breaks and reward yourself and your loved ones with nice things every so often to make it a worthwhile way of life. 

Presently, taking a few months off nearly all gambling due to needing a complete break and also getting married.

paddletoe

congrats mate, goodluck. another good man bites the dust

online poker and playing 8 tables at once totally destroyed me that much i very very rarely summon the effort to play online now.
i loved it at the start, coz i like numbers and was good at maths so i could make the calls as fast as the tables appeared. its the only way you can play online, as long as your getting value for calling and good odds for hitting your outs. its an instant call.
waste fo time trying to work out if one is a fish or another is acalling stations when playing loads of tables you have to play the cards and percentages.

Took Hansen online on FTP and taught him a lesson (hit and run)

Tried to do the same on Zigmund but wasn't to be.

Wanted to say I was up on both of them

Not many others out there up on Hansen mind you even though we only played like 5 hands

Hansen cant be doing well these days, everyone knows his favourite hand is 2 5 off